Kore-eda's 'La vérité' Opens Venice Film Festival 76

The 76th Venice International Film Festival opened with 'La vérité', a film by Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke. The story centers on a mother, a daughter, and a granddaughter, blending Japanese cinema with French comedy. The film is distributed in Italy by BIM Distribuzione from October 3. The festival's new opening credits were designed by Lorenzo Mattoti, featuring imagery of the Lido, the festival venues, and the Lion. Kore-eda, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018 for 'Shoplifters', revealed that Binoche contacted him in 2011 to make a film based on a play set in an actress's dressing room. Binoche described working with Deneuve as a dream come true. Deneuve's character delivers the line: 'I prefer to have been a bad mother, a bad mother but a good actress.' The festival also faces controversy due to the competition entry of Roman Polanski's film.